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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What occurs as Caputo walks through the elephant grass in the jungle?
(a) He comes face to face with a viet Cong.
(b) He is almost shot by Lance Corporal Skates.
(c) He walks up on an Asian elephant.
(d) He steps on a land mine that fortunately does not detonate.

2. What does Lieutenant Tester want to know about Caputo's trip to Japan?
(a) The bars
(b) The weather
(c) The girls
(d) The new arrivals

3. When does Caputo say is the only bearable time of day in Vietnam?
(a) Early morning
(b) Mid-morning
(c) Midnight
(d) Sunset

4. What does Caputo observe about the young mother as they are searching her house?
(a) How she covers her face with a scarf.
(b) How frightened she looks.
(c) How she looks on with complete passivity and without without expression.
(d) How she appreciates his putting everything back in place.

5. How does Caputo describe his feeling after learning about the death and casualties?
(a) It is the first time he feelst the slimy, hollow-cold fear of death.
(b) It is the detachment of unreality.
(c) It is the sadness of seeing his friends changed.
(d) It is the remorse of not having been with his men.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the misconception the platoon has when they are deployed to Vietnam?

2. How is pursuit defined in the jungle of Vietnam?

3. How much of the base does Caputo say has escaped the damage?

4. What is the joke Sgt. Hamilton says outside the adjutant's tent?

5. Where are most of the men when the orders come to deploy to Vietnam?

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